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How much do you spend on groceries?

Originally Posted by VicPark

Can I hijack and ask for the ladies who spend $200 or less per week in groceries, what type of meals and snacks do you eat? I have no idea how I can get my grocery bill that low. (I suppose I buy a lot of Packaged stuff).

Breakfast is toast or weetbix, I buy milk in bulk by the box so I always have enough, we eat meat and vegies in some form almost every night, pasta with meat as well.

I have one child at school and the other is home with me full time so we have sandwiches for lunch or left overs from the night before. My kids FAVOURITE snack ATM is tinned corn - they have it for 'dessert' some nights (after eating corn with their dinner lol) and it costs me 89c per tin lol.

I shop at ALDI and stock up on non perishables whenever I can. The freezer is always full of meat as well. Kids have fresh fruit whenever they want it and we'll bake occasionally too :-)

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How much do you spend on groceries?

Originally Posted by VicPark

Can I hijack and ask for the ladies who spend $200 or less per week in groceries, what type of meals and snacks do you eat? I have no idea how I can get my grocery bill that low. (I suppose I buy a lot of Packaged stuff).

Stop buying packaged stuff? We eat meat and 4-5 veg with rice/pasta/potatoes each night (we eat no meat one night a week and DF and I don't always eat the carb) obviously we turn them into something ie we don't eat steak and veg each night but things like beef stog, stir fry yadda yadda. Breakfast is cereal or toast, snacks are something homemade, fruit, yoghurt, cheese crackers and dried fruit, veg and dip, muesli bars sometimes tiny teddies if they are on special but it's very treaty for us (I avoid giving the kids sugar), a mini tin of baked beans goes down well too. For lunch we eat leftover dinner (mainly when DF is away) or sandwiches, crackers or wraps with salad sometimes tuna or cold meat as well or spreads.

Making things from scratch really saves $ I have just been slack and buying yoghurt instead of making it, wraps as well...my thing at the moment is Lenard's! Trying something new each week oh and orange juice which is $5 for 2L!

How much do you spend on groceries?

Originally Posted by onlyjuststarting

We meal plan usually, and DH takes lunch most days (leftovers or a batch of something ill make at the beginning of the week). Meals are usually pretty simple but tasty and healthy - steak and salad, stir fries, roast and vegies etc. We snack on fruit, nuts, and vegies etc. Only packaged foods I buy is muesli, yoghurt, vita wheats, canned tomatoes for spag bolg, and ice blocks as a treat in the evening.
The butcher and fruit shop I go to are really good quality and fresh, and reasonably priced, although it took me a little while to find them. I also do Coles online to stop impulse buys (and for the convenience!!).

In fact, the online coles shopping would be the thing that makes the biggest difference IMO...I can stick to my list, saves so much time!( takes me about 5-10 mins to place an order), and I get it delivered to my door. Amazing.

I'd say it's about $40 a week on fruit & veg. Everything else (legumes, grains, flours, oats etc) we buy in bulk from a co-op. I'd say we spend about $200 every couple of months? Obviously this will go up once DD starts eating.

How much do you spend on groceries?

Originally Posted by headoverfeet

Stop buying packaged stuff? We eat meat and 4-5 veg with rice/pasta/potatoes each night (we eat no meat one night a week and DF and I don't always eat the carb) obviously we turn them into something ie we don't eat steak and veg each night but things like beef stog, stir fry yadda yadda. Breakfast is cereal or toast, snacks are something homemade, fruit, yoghurt, cheese crackers and dried fruit, veg and dip, muesli bars sometimes tiny teddies if they are on special but it's very treaty for us (I avoid giving the kids sugar), a mini tin of baked beans goes down well too. For lunch we eat leftover dinner (mainly when DF is away) or sandwiches, crackers or wraps with salad sometimes tuna or cold meat as well or spreads.

Making things from scratch really saves $ I have just been slack and buying yoghurt instead of making it, wraps as well...my thing at the moment is Lenard's! Trying something new each week oh and orange juice which is $5 for 2L!

I know... I just find with working I don't have time to spend 1 hour cooking something from scratch. If I can plop a frozen lasagne or pre-stuffed chook in the oven, then rustle up a bit of salad that's a 10 minute job.

Also a lot of the low fat stuff (eg extra light cheese or weight watchers ice cream) is expensive.

I'm going to have to put my thinking cap on, y'all are doing such a good job!

How much do you spend on groceries?

I spend about $75 a week for me and DD. I don't cook big dinners every night though - maybe once a week I make lasagne or a roast or something which lasts a few days, the rest of the time it's scrambled eggs and baked beans, homemade pizza, toasted sandwiches etc.

What I do with the online shopping, go through your list and remove any food that has little or no nutritional value things like treats, chips, custard, desserts and packaged stuff.

I tell myself we don't really need to eat 'chips,choc et' and i remove it from the list.

You need to plan dinners that cost less rice, pasta and noodle and vegie based meals are cheap, make bulk dinner and use it for lunches the next day, also use lentils, chickpeas and beans in meals they all cost next to nothing.
Avoid jars of sauces like stirfry sauce and the like and make them yourself.

- Taco wraps with flat bread, on the table i put a salad platter with lettuce, grated carrot and cheese, cucumber, red onion. bowl of vegie mince, bowl of beans flavored with taco flavour and some salsa.
The kids build them themselves.

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Re: How much do you spend on groceries?

Originally Posted by VicPark

I know... I just find with working I don't have time to spend 1 hour cooking something from scratch. If I can plop a frozen lasagne or pre-stuffed chook in the oven, then rustle up a bit of salad that's a 10 minute job.

Also a lot of the low fat stuff (eg extra light cheese or weight watchers ice cream) is expensive.

I'm going to have to put my thinking cap on, y'all are doing such a good job!

I make things like the kantong / chook tonight style things with about 500grams of meat and veggies, it always makes enough for 3-4 serves and 1 for the freezer, if i do this for a little bit i have bulk 'instant' meals in the freezer,

Lazagne i dont make as i don't know how you would go about freezing it

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